TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

The Paris Review

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After months of germination, our Spring issue is out today! Shrug off the winter doldrums with the bright splashes of color on our cover, painted by the Lebanese artist Etel Adnan especially for the issue. Look between the covers for a portfolio of h

Writing Magazine

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Did I mention that I have signed up for a two-book deal? Lucky me, right? The only problem is that now I’m tasked with delivering the next novel in two months’ time. No problem for a seasoned (jaded) writer like myself, surely? After all, I’ve churne

Scoop

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David is an Australian illustrator and storyboard artist. He creates award-winning science fiction adventure graphic novels for readers of all ages. www.scoopthemag.co.uk www.patreon.com/davidfollett INSTAGRAM: @davefollettdraws ■

Poets & Writers

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Alice James Books No name in the city of undoingI lengthen beyond what I know —from “self/hood” HOW IT BEGAN: The poems in Inheritance were formed while I walked around D.C. or had conversations with friends and lovers, or as a response to a theoreti

The Australian Women's Weekly

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The Duchess of Cornwell has shared some of her favourite recent reads to inspire book lovers and promote reading. Her Royal Highness is an avid reader and patron of several literary organisations. Gothic horror meets psychological realism. A crime t

Poets & Writers

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THE WRITERS I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF TALKING WITH these days have one thing in common: They are all incredibly busy. I believe the most precious gift one could offer a creative person is time: unscheduled, unencumbered, unhurried time. But when I hear

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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The Duchess of Cornwell has shared some of her favourite recent reads to inspire book lovers and promote reading. Her Royal Highness is an avid reader and patron of several literary organisations. Gothic horror meets psychological realism. A crime

The Millions

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As someone who’s been at this books thing “professionally” for a while, I confess I really, really need books to prove to me why they need to exist. The post A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung appeared first on The Millions.

History of War

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With this special issue of History of War, readers can get three fantastic Ebooks to read on any supporting device. These include Book of the Battle of Britain, Book of the RAF and Hitler at War. Visit bit.ly/how_84 ■

The Millions

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The Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded yesterday to Tayari Jones for An American Marriage, at a ceremony in New York City. The prize, which operates out of the Aspen Institute, awards $35,000 annually to “an influential work of fiction that illum

Poets & Writers

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Feedback from readers Kevin Larimer’s “Maybe This Is Enough for Now” (July/August 2020), calmed the ruthless self-critic who kept nagging me for not using quarantine time to write. After reading the Editor’s Note, I recalled the 2019 Kauai Writers Co

Writing Magazine

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Creative Mind Horwich is inviting entries for two nature writing competitions. • Nature and Nurture is for short stories up to 1,500 words and poems up to forty lines on the ‘nature and nurture’ theme. There are prizes of £50, £30 and £20 in each cat

Writing Magazine

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The Historical Writers’ Association Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition is inviting entries. The competition is for original, unpublished historical fiction in any genre, up to 3,500 words. All stories must be set at least 35 years in the past. T

Total Film

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A companion/sequel to 2017’s The Art And Soul Of… this reveals more about unused ideas, from Luv’s original fate to a canopy covering all of Vegas. Aside from a section on dystopian couture (this season’s theme is ‘urban snow trash’), the focus is lo

New Zealand Listener

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Whenever I want a laugh and a lesson on great fiction, I re-read Martin Amis’ best novel, The Information (Penguin). It’s about a 40-year-old writer who tries to wreck the life of a more successful writer friend. The prose is superb: Amis’ high style

New American Paintings

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St. Louis, MO albertyowshien@gmail.com / www.albertyowshien.com / @yowshien 2019 Safety Last!, The Bermuda Project, Ferguson, MO Too Good To Be True, LVL3, Chicago, IL 2018 A Demonstration from Fifty Percent, Putnam Center for the Arts, Jacksonville,

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 700 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Thilde Kold Holdt Publisher Rebellion This is, in many ways, a classic genre fantasy. There are several characters, mostly very young, several with touches of non-human ancestry, whose points of vi

Da Man

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Get some in-depth insight into the punk subculture through the magnificently-written “A Field Guide To Punk” by Steve Wide. Here, author and DJ Steve Wide explains the social climate of Thatcherism and presents a complete and detailed timeline of fou

Literary Hub

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Renowned poets Jericho Brown (2020 Pulitzer Prize winner) and Nikky Finney (2011 National Book Award winner), formerly student and teacher, reunite to address the current moment of uprising and solidarity in the face of anti-Black violence, in a visc

Writing Magazine

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‘We (Anne Forrest and Judy Price), both left school at fifteen with little opportunity for further education until decades later when Judith studied for a BA, and Anne for a Masters, in English Literature with Creative Writing at Wales’ Bangor Univer

Literary Hub

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Modern multiracial London, a Caribbean colonial sugar plantation, an undefined afterlife, pre-WWII England, and a dystopian United States—this month’s overlooked fiction will transport you whether you like it, or not. Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and F

Literary Hub

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For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began.

Writing Magazine

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George Szirtes and Lucy Ellman have won this year’s James Tait Black Prize. The annual £10,000 prizes are awarded by the University of Edinburgh. George Szirtes’ The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter – a biography of his mother

Sunday Tribune

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TODAY is the last of the monthly book fair for the year, with authors from around the country launching and promoting their books. The book fair, now in its third year, is a volunteer programme to support Durban as a Unesco World City of Literature.

Popshot Magazine

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6 – Sophie Lay is a creative writing student at the University of Gloucestershire, and has performed her work at the Cheltenham Literature Festival and Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Cultivate was inspired by her suspicion of rejuvenation and gentrifica

Writing Magazine

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North Yorkshire based Ripon Writers’ Group meets on alternate Tuesday evenings throughout the year at the Old Deanery, just across the road from Ripon Cathedral, to share our work and offer feedback, writes Maggie Cobbett. Published or as yet unpubli

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

North & South

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On 23 August, young poets, poetry royalty, performance poets, rappers and “slammers” will be taking over your town – hoping to beat last year’s Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day record of 150 events across 60 locations nationwide. Check nzbook